Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1999

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Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1999

1999

Intermediate Implementation Intermediate implementation

On July 23, 1999, Parliament passed the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone Participation in Political and Democratic Process Act, 1999 (No. 4 of 1999). The Act facilitated the transformation of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone into a political movement and the assumption by members of the Front of any public offices assigned to them pursuant to the Lomé Peace Agreement. On the same day, Parliament also passed the Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and development Act, 1999 (No. 5 of 1999), as provided for under Article XXVIII of the Lomé Peace Agreement.1 This Act allowed the RUF to participate in the transitional government.

A fund was to be established to assist the RUF in its transformation into a political party, but this fund did not materialized.2

  1. “Laws of Sierra Leone,” accessed October 14, 2010, http://www.sierra-leone.org/laws.html.
  2. Anders Nilsson, “Dangerous Liaisons: Why Ex-Combatants Return to Violence” (PhD diss., Uppsala University, 2008).